You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was incredible warmth and humor and generosity and wicked fun.

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.